James Duffield Harding Auction Prices and Value Guide

James Duffield Harding auction prices are tracked in Appraisily's artist market index, with source-directory coverage of 605 records. Use this page to review sold-lot activity, market context, and valuation factors before requesting a formal appraisal.

James Duffield Harding auction prices: quick answer

James Duffield Harding auction prices depend on medium, size, date, condition, provenance, edition details, attribution confidence, and recent comparable auction sales.

Artist
James Duffield Harding
Source records
605
Market update
2026-02-06

James Duffield Harding market snapshot

James Duffield Harding shows solid auction liquidity with 124 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $200. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 7 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-11-11.

Realized price distribution

  • Under $1,000 (88.3% · 68 sales)
  • $1,000 to $10,000 (10.4% · 8 sales)
  • $10,000+ (1.3% · 1 sales)
Median sale (last 12 months)
$850
Sales recorded (last 12 months)
7
Median shift vs prior year
+100.0%
Latest recorded sale
2025-11-11

Artist context

About James Duffield Harding

James Duffield Harding portrait
Henry Perronet Briggs (1793-1844) · Public domain · Source

Born

1798

Died

1863

Nationality

British

James Duffield Harding (1798–1863) was a British artist associated with landscape painting and works on paper. Public authority records identify him as a painter, engraver, and writer, while biographical sources also describe his work as a watercolourist and lithographer. His practice therefore crossed original paintings and drawings, printed images, and art instruction. Harding is particularly connected with watercolour techniques using tinted paper and opaque colour, an approach that helped give landscape studies greater tonal range and visual weight. He also wrote drawing manuals, extending his presence beyond exhibited or collected objects into nineteenth-century artistic education. Collectors may encounter his name on watercolours, landscape paintings, drawings, lithographs, engravings, and illustrated or instructional publications. Because these objects differ substantially in process and status, identifying the medium and determining whether a work is an original, a print, or a published plate is an important first step in researching it.

British landscape paintingWatercolourLithographyPaintingEngravingLandscape

Common works and media

Works associated with Harding include landscape watercolours, drawings, paintings, lithographs, engravings, and drawing manuals or related illustrated publications. His documented use of tinted paper and opaque paint is especially relevant when describing watercolours. Printed images and book plates should be distinguished from unique works, and a publication bearing his name should not automatically be treated as an original drawing or painting.

Market and appraisal context

Auction and appraisal research for Harding should begin with the object's medium and work type. A watercolour or drawing should be compared with similar original works on paper, while a lithograph, engraving, or published plate belongs to a different comparison set. Technique also matters: sources associate Harding with tinted papers and opaque colour as well as conventional painting and printmaking. Appraisily's artist page provides an auction-record signal, but the collected source pack does not include enough individual lot evidence to support a price trend or prediction. A defensible appraisal should therefore use comparable public sales matched by medium, subject, and object type, followed by object-specific assessment of authorship, condition, provenance, dimensions, date, and any edition information.

Auction categories and appraisal factors

Common auction categories

  • Landscape watercolours and other works on paper
  • Landscape paintings
  • Lithographs and other prints
  • Drawings and instructional publications

Value drivers

  1. Medium and technique, including distinctions among watercolour, opaque watercolour, painting, lithography, and engraving
  2. Work type and subject, particularly whether an object is an original landscape, a print, or an instructional publication
  3. Comparable public auction records selected for the same medium and work type

Appraisal caveats

  • The source pack does not contain individual auction-lot descriptions or a major auction-house biography, so no artist-specific price trend or ranking is asserted.
  • The precise death date is reported by a discovery source but was not independently confirmed by an accessible institution-grade excerpt.
  • Authorship, condition, provenance, dimensions, date, and any print-edition details require object-specific examination before appraisal.

Evidence

Sources for artist context

This source-grounded artist context is based on collected public records: medium confidence, adequate source quality.

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Data basis

This page is built from Appraisily's public auction market index. Private transactions, incomplete sale feeds, and attribution changes may not be fully represented.

LLM-readable Markdown summary for James Duffield Harding

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Artist value FAQ

How much is James Duffield Harding worth?

Comparable public auction sales are the best starting point, but final value depends on the specific artwork, condition, size, medium, provenance, and attribution confidence.

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